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Somewhen in the not too distant future: Master safecracker McCray is
safe behind bars when Jules (Jennifer Sydney), operative of a mighty tech
corporation, offers him freedom if he makes himself available for a heist
to steal a prototype of something (her info's not quite clear on that)
from another mighty tech corporation. Reluctantly McCray agrees, and even
more reluctantly he has them implant a camera into his eye ... The heist
works out just fine, but then Jules, McCray and their team fail to be
picked up, and thus are on their own, at the mercy of mercenaries of the
corporation they've just robbed. One of their group, Decker (Teddy Canez)
actually activates the prototype, and it turns Jules into a bloodthirsty
fighting machine at the switch of a button, and also turns her back normal
again. But Jules, Decker and Kyle (Aaron Moreland) soon run into a gang
who makes them their prisoners, trying to get the most for them and the
gadget they're carrying. McCray and Natalie (Faye Kingslee) have in the
meantime lost the others and hooked up with McCray's best friend Clark
(Willie Bingo), a master hacker ... who tells them the cameras in their
eyes have been hacked, meaning the corporation they're working for have
lost contact to them, but there's someone else who has obviously taken
things into his hands since ... After having freed themselves from the
gang, Jules, Decker and Kyle, rejoined by McCray and Natalie, are looking
for sanctuary - but the longer that goes, the more obvious it becomes that
Decker is having his own ulterior motives, might be behind the hack, and
is now using the others as pawns in his game. What's even more
frightening, he's the only one who knows how to work the prototype which
can turn them all against one another ... There are probably
people who will be frightened away by Robot Wars' found footage
approach - but to be honest, it's woven into the story quite beautifully
and serves as an actual trigger for things going wrong. And the film
despite its approach doesn't make the mistake to have looong takes with
little happening but changes perspective constantly (as you'd expect from
a movie of its ilk) with tons of action going on. But despite all the
action, Robot Wars can actually be seen as a thinking man's sci-fi
flick, as it presents us with a dystopian future world that can be seen as
social commentary, and it asks many relevant quesitons between all the
chases, fights and shoot-outs ... and at the same time it's also a very
tense and suspenseful thriller that really ought to be seen!
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